Not since the advent of the World Wide Web has such an easy and exciting communications medium been within reach of the masses. Podcasting offers educators and students remarkable opportunities for their voices to be heard in their local communities or the around world. One could think of podcasting as blogging without writing or as a way for every class to have its own radio station. You have the power to get in on the ground-floor of this new media phenomena and express yourself today!Gary S. Stager
Educational consultant, author, teacher educator

..."Aspiring writers and journalists have their blogs, aspiring movie directors have their Apple iMovies, and aspiring DJs/radio producers now have podcasting," says Reinier Evers, the founder of trendwatching.com, in an e-mail interview. "Podcasting allows for tens of thousands of new 'radio' stations - or, more likely, tens of thousands of radio programs."
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Digital technology for iPod does for radio what blogs did for the Internet.By Stephen Humphries | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

***** Excellent article!
Start Your Own Podcast (MacWorld Online)
An easy to follow tutorial for Mac users. Windows users should be able to make sense of the instructions as well.

***** Excellent article!
Adam Curry Wants to Make You an iPod Radio Star (Wired Magazine)
He's gone from MTV to MP3, and now he's leading a grassroots rebellion called podcasting. Why amateurs may soon rule the airwaves (begin download now). By Annalee Newitz Page

How to Make an RSS Feed
Podcasting relies on the RSS syndication system for telling people that your podcast is available for consumption. This article does an excellent job of explaining how RSS feeds make blogging and podcasting possible.

Podcasting with Blogger
This indispensable web page gives your the template for the XML code required to podcast from the Blogger site your own, providing your server is capable of serving XML (most are).

Podcast receiving software will display a list of "feeds" (audio programs) you may subscribe to.

Adventures in Proto-Podcasting(Playlist Magazine)
Christopher Breen tells how he automatically transferred streaming radio to his iPod for new-found portability.

Radio Daze (Playlist Magazine)
Tools for capturing Internet radio by Christopher Breen

Podcast Bunker
The podcastbunker.com site maintains a regularly updated list of high-quality podcasts worthy of your consideration. The sites are annotated and rated. You may also submit your own podcasts for entry into the bunker.

Feeder (Mac) $30 after 15-day free trial
Feeder is an application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on Mac OS X. Whether it's a news feed for your site or a podcast, Feeder makes it simple. Works with podcasts and more.

MoviesForMyPod (Mac)
Free tool for converting your movie files for play on the Video iPod.

Podner (Mac)
A $9.95 tool for converting your movie files into a format that the Video iPod can play.

iPodderX is an improved, yet ($19.95) shareware, version of iPodder that allows for the automatic subscription and downloading of all sorts of digital media - including graphics, audio and video. (Mac OS X)

Soundflower is a MacOS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Soundflower is free and open-source.

Podcasting is the latest innovation to sweep the Internet. In the hands of creative educators, this low-cost low-barrier vehicle for self-expression offers learners the ability to create their own regularly scheduled broadcasts online. Best of all, members of the community can listen to the podcasts at their leisure as new programs are automatically downloaded and installed on their iPod or other digital media player.

This workshop will share the hows and whys of podcasting, complete with ideas for innovative learning adventures and school-to-home communication. Don't miss this opportunity to seize the future!

This short comic book by the host of NPR's This
American Life somehow manages to inspire children
of all ages to conduct great interviews and produce radio
programs for the web and traditional radio. This is the
best $4 you will ever spend!

During the infancy of podcasting, say a month ago, I would teach people to write an XML enclosure for their feed and then upload the file via an FTP client. I would simplify the process by providing a template document and all anyone needs to do is change the file name, file size, etc...

Well, two things are true. Many people never seem to understand the FTP to server process and hacking XML in front of an audience was always dangerous.

However, with Apple's introduction of iLife '06 comes an amazingly powerful version of Garageband that allows you to record and edit brilliant podcasts easily and then press a button to podcast them. There is no turning back.